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E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime

of things that did happen and the types of things that could easily have happened. In the storyline, Harry Houdini is presented t...

Fourth Quarter 1998 and Fourth Quarter 1999 Stock Performance of Yahoo!

Comparative fourth quarter 1998 and 1999 stock performances of Yahoo! are presented in a paper consisting of five pages with the i...

Spy Satellites and Their History

(Richelson, 1997, p. 295). This laid the initial groundwork for the construction of a spy satellite, and nearly nine years later,...

From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss Jr.

of race riots and voices rising in protest, led by such African Americans as W.E.B. Du Bois. An ad placed by the NAACP in several ...

A Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill and Different Interpretations

a purely psychoanalytic point of view, this family epitomizes the term dysfunctional. The father, James, is battling depression be...

Seabiscuit Film Historical Review

portrays? Are the facts sacrificed in the name of entertainment? Seabiscuit is not only the story of a horse but also of the rea...

English Language Learners' Educational Timeline

schools to take "affirmative steps" to overcome language barriers that impeded non-English speaking children from academic success...

Agriculture and the Impact of the Industrial Revolution

sell crops. Farmers worked the land themselves. They would work for the love of the land and start family businesses. In fact, whi...

Reality and Language

stand for, the anger of your assailant. "In other words, the knife in my wall has become an objectively available constituent of t...

Historical Significance of Scarlet Fever

face and chest that it causes, and it is characterized by chills, fever, headache, vomiting, rapid pulse, red rash and an inflame...

History of Enlightened Despotism

several of the head governmental officials during the period of Enlightenment (Enlightened Absolutism, 2005). As a respected scho...

Cod, A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky

view at that time which saw nature as indestructible. However, as Kurlansky also shows, no species or aspect of nature has this qu...

Historical Accuracy of Michael Collins Film by Director Neil Jordan

an uneasy political alliance with Sinn Fein President Eamon De Valera, and this fueled the romantic rivalry between Collins and hi...

Developing a Personal Education Philosophy

the standards movement. This "default" philosophy emerges from a behaviorist, positivists background that places great emphasis...

Historical Perspectives on Constantinople's Collapse

new fortress complemented the one that had been built on the Anatolian shore...The presence of the two fortresses made clear to ev...

An Analysis of the Blakes Poems, Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience

be the definitive poetic volumes with Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). In each work, a poem entitled "Th...

England and France During the 17th and 18th Centuries

was played out by their government. It has been contended that English land was a critical element in most all of the...

Lessons Learned From The Napoleonic Era

who realized the importance of artillery they paved the way for artillery to become a major factor on the battleground and give ri...

Richard III and the Historical Account by William Shakespeare

in terms of the authors or historians he used, they also generally utilized others. For example, "Holinsheds Chronicles of England...

Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest

Johnson (1999) specifically addresses the path of negotiations between the Kalapuya and the US government, recounting the Kalapuya...

History Plays of William Shakespeare

For instance, Hotspur from Henry IV was actually old enough to be Prince Hals father, but Shakespeare pictured the two characters ...

Immigrants from Ecuador in the United States

the helm in the "New World". Each component group of the immigrant wave was subjected to the same pressure to become...

U.S. Nuclear Power Industry and its Historical Development

reactor or core where the heat is generated and fission takes place within a controlled environment (Marcus and Levin, 2002). A c...

20th Century British India

but it pays to note also that other things would occur to render the necessity of government help. As a result, it is found that o...

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

work of fiction to which Alvarez brings her skills as a novelist in creating characterization for each sister. The book is divided...

Review of Animal Farm by George Orwell

could have happened when the intentions were so noble. In other words, this novel/fable is a "must read" for anyone trying to unde...

Specific and General Deterrence Criminological Theories

other citizens from committing the same behavior (Renteln 192). General deterrence operates under the assumption that no matter h...

Machiavelli's Views on Agathocles and Borgia

The Prince, it is clear that they came from a multitude of places, but most notably from the example of Borgia. Some ideas would c...

1066 The Year of the Conquest by David Howarth

found nothing whatever to say to King Harald Hardrada of Norway" (9). Throughout the course of the text, it becomes readily appar...

Past and Present Interpretations of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Caesar with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, who was at that time entering the twilight of her life.6 At the time it was initially...